cephalinn.1
/ˈsɛfəlɪn/ Zoology.
= cephalont n.
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cytozoon1882
cephalont1885
cephalin1888
Babesia1900
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1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 858 A Polycystid possessing all three segments is known as a Cephalin or Cephalont.
1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa xiv. 326 In the earlier phase, in which an epimerite is present, the parasite was termed by Aimé Schneider a cephalont (‘cephalin’).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
cephalinn.2
/ˈsɛfəlɪn/ Biochemistry.
A phospholipid similar to lecithin, originally isolated from brain tissue and capable of accelerating the coagulation of blood; = kephalin n.Now the usual spelling.
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1900 in W. A. N. Dorland Med. Dict.
1920 J. J. R. Macleod Physiol. & Biochem. (ed. 2) lxxvii. 689 Other phospholipins present in nervous tissue are cephalin, cuorin and sphingo~myelin.
1961 Lancet 5 Aug. 286/2 In normal plasma 50–55% of the protein-bound calcium is bound to albumin, and the rest mainly to globulin and cephalins.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 173 Plasmalogens..are closely related to the classical lecithin (phosphatidyl choline) and cephalin (phosphatidyl ethanolamine).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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